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POLLYTALK FROM NEW YORK
By Polly Guerin
July 6, 2009
THE BIG APPLE HAS IT ALL!!!
It’s all here in our own BIG APPLE. No need to travel to France when you can check out
Napoleon, review Parisian fashions, book avant-garde performances and celebrate Bastille Day
right here in New York City. This week’s events are very Frenchy, but there’s also something
special about the weekend. Here’s the scoop!!!
Hit the high spots in town but plan a trip to see ARTHAMPTONS. Sponsor International Fine Art
Fair is the place to be this weekend from July 10 to July 12 where vetted art works include modern
and contemporary art, significant paintings, works on paper, prints-to glass art and sculpture.
Special events include: Friday, 2-3pm artist Dan Rizzie signs ArtHampton’s poster in the VIP
lounge. Sunday, l-2pm, TV personality Countess LuAnn de Lesseps signs her book, “Class with
the Countess-How to live with Elegance and Fair. Friday July 10 and Saturday July 11, noon-7pm
and Sunday; July 12, noon-6pm. At the Bridgehampton Historical Society Grounds, 2368 Montauk
Highway. Take the Hampton Jitney. Ticket info: www.arthamptons.com or 631.283.5505.
Baron Haussmann’s transformation of the French capital from the dark and foreboding medieval
streets to a city of broad boulevards that we know today, gives insight into the seedy side of Paris
in an exhibition of photography worth the viewing. The urban metropolis serves as the focus of
NAPOLEON III and PARIS an exhibition of 30 photographs that reveal the ancient city as you’ve
never seen them before. One image depicts the street where lived the barber who butchered his
clients and the baker who made pies. A true story. Doesn’t it sound familiar? Perhaps inspiration
for the musical, Sweeney Todd. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. through 9/7.
www.metmuseum.org.
Once upon a time I wrote a documentary story on the “Theatre de la Mode,” for Doll World, but
now you can see some of the Lilliputian Ambassadors of Fashion for yourself in a photographic
exhibition, “David Seidner: Paris Fashions, l945” at the International Center of Photography. Some
200 Lilliputian ambassadors of fashion, 27-inch high dolls clad in the couture garments and
accessories by top Parisian designers toured the United States and Europe after World War II to
boost the war-battered Haute Couture industry. Seidner presents 15 color photographs shot for a
1990 reconstruction of the show and one of the original dolls is on display. 1114 Avenue of the
Americas at 42nd Street. Through 9/6. www.icp.org.
A cornerstone of Paris’ avant-garde stage scene, The 14th-annual Lincoln Center in conjunction
with the Park Avenue Armory opens with the U.S. premiere LES EPHEMERES under the direction
of the theater icon Ariane Mnouchkine. The dramatic play, performed by Le Theatre du Soleil, is a
succession of highly realistic scenes from the everyday lives of ordinary people, each enacted on
a rotating disc. In French with English supertitles. 7/7through 7/19. Park Avenue Armory, 643
Park Avenue at 67th St. For ticket information: www.armoryonpark.org or www.lincolncenter.org.
You don’t have to be French to celebrate Bastille Day. Sponsor Alliance Francaise kicks off the
festivities on July 12 from noon to 6pm on East 60th between Fifth Avenue to Lexington Avenue. It’
s a family friendly fete covering three city blocks with a New Orleans-style gospel choir, cancan
dancers, Breton tunes and refreshments: wine, cheese and other delicacies in French-themed
market stalls. So put on your beret and join in the fun. www.bastilledaynyc.com.
Well, ta ta darlings. I’m getting in a Frenchy mood and the Big Apple Has It All!!! Remember you
heard all about it on the Big Apple News Network. Fan mails goes to pollytal@verizon.net or go to
my website www.pollytalk.com where you can have direct access to my lecture at the l0th World
Congress on Art Deco by merely clicking on “here” and the link takes you right to the webcast.
By Polly Guerin
July 6, 2009
THE BIG APPLE HAS IT ALL!!!
It’s all here in our own BIG APPLE. No need to travel to France when you can check out
Napoleon, review Parisian fashions, book avant-garde performances and celebrate Bastille Day
right here in New York City. This week’s events are very Frenchy, but there’s also something
special about the weekend. Here’s the scoop!!!
Hit the high spots in town but plan a trip to see ARTHAMPTONS. Sponsor International Fine Art
Fair is the place to be this weekend from July 10 to July 12 where vetted art works include modern
and contemporary art, significant paintings, works on paper, prints-to glass art and sculpture.
Special events include: Friday, 2-3pm artist Dan Rizzie signs ArtHampton’s poster in the VIP
lounge. Sunday, l-2pm, TV personality Countess LuAnn de Lesseps signs her book, “Class with
the Countess-How to live with Elegance and Fair. Friday July 10 and Saturday July 11, noon-7pm
and Sunday; July 12, noon-6pm. At the Bridgehampton Historical Society Grounds, 2368 Montauk
Highway. Take the Hampton Jitney. Ticket info: www.arthamptons.com or 631.283.5505.
Baron Haussmann’s transformation of the French capital from the dark and foreboding medieval
streets to a city of broad boulevards that we know today, gives insight into the seedy side of Paris
in an exhibition of photography worth the viewing. The urban metropolis serves as the focus of
NAPOLEON III and PARIS an exhibition of 30 photographs that reveal the ancient city as you’ve
never seen them before. One image depicts the street where lived the barber who butchered his
clients and the baker who made pies. A true story. Doesn’t it sound familiar? Perhaps inspiration
for the musical, Sweeney Todd. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. through 9/7.
www.metmuseum.org.
Once upon a time I wrote a documentary story on the “Theatre de la Mode,” for Doll World, but
now you can see some of the Lilliputian Ambassadors of Fashion for yourself in a photographic
exhibition, “David Seidner: Paris Fashions, l945” at the International Center of Photography. Some
200 Lilliputian ambassadors of fashion, 27-inch high dolls clad in the couture garments and
accessories by top Parisian designers toured the United States and Europe after World War II to
boost the war-battered Haute Couture industry. Seidner presents 15 color photographs shot for a
1990 reconstruction of the show and one of the original dolls is on display. 1114 Avenue of the
Americas at 42nd Street. Through 9/6. www.icp.org.
A cornerstone of Paris’ avant-garde stage scene, The 14th-annual Lincoln Center in conjunction
with the Park Avenue Armory opens with the U.S. premiere LES EPHEMERES under the direction
of the theater icon Ariane Mnouchkine. The dramatic play, performed by Le Theatre du Soleil, is a
succession of highly realistic scenes from the everyday lives of ordinary people, each enacted on
a rotating disc. In French with English supertitles. 7/7through 7/19. Park Avenue Armory, 643
Park Avenue at 67th St. For ticket information: www.armoryonpark.org or www.lincolncenter.org.
You don’t have to be French to celebrate Bastille Day. Sponsor Alliance Francaise kicks off the
festivities on July 12 from noon to 6pm on East 60th between Fifth Avenue to Lexington Avenue. It’
s a family friendly fete covering three city blocks with a New Orleans-style gospel choir, cancan
dancers, Breton tunes and refreshments: wine, cheese and other delicacies in French-themed
market stalls. So put on your beret and join in the fun. www.bastilledaynyc.com.
Well, ta ta darlings. I’m getting in a Frenchy mood and the Big Apple Has It All!!! Remember you
heard all about it on the Big Apple News Network. Fan mails goes to pollytal@verizon.net or go to
my website www.pollytalk.com where you can have direct access to my lecture at the l0th World
Congress on Art Deco by merely clicking on “here” and the link takes you right to the webcast.